camp | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: campy |
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(noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, cantonment, encampment |
(noun) temporary lodgings in the country for travelers or vacationers | - |
(noun) a penal institution (often for forced labor) | - |
(noun) a site where care and activities are provided for children during the summer months | Synonyms: summer camp |
(noun) shelter for persons displaced by war or political oppression or for religious beliefs | Synonyms: refugee camp |
(noun) something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality | - |
(noun) a group of people living together in a camp | - |
(noun) an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose | Synonyms: clique, coterie, ingroup, inner circle, pack |
(verb) give an artificially banal or sexual quality to | - |
(verb) establish or set up a camp | Synonyms: camp down |
(verb) live in or as if in a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camp out, encamp, tent |
campaign | (noun) several related operations aimed at achieving a particular goal (usually within geographical and temporal constraints) | Synonyms: military campaign |
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(noun) an overland journey by hunters (especially in Africa) | Synonyms: hunting expedition, safari |
(noun) a series of actions advancing a principle or tending toward a particular end | Synonyms: cause, crusade, drive, effort, movement |
(noun) a race between candidates for elective office | Synonyms: political campaign, run |
(verb) go on a campaign; go off to war | Synonyms: take the field |
(verb) run, stand, or compete for an office or a position | Synonyms: run |
(verb) exert oneself continuously, vigorously, or obtrusively to gain an end or engage in a crusade for a certain cause or person; be an advocate for | Synonyms: agitate, crusade, fight, press, push |
campaigner | (noun) a politician who is running for public office | Synonyms: candidate, nominee |
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campaigning | (noun) the campaign of a candidate to be elected | Synonyms: candidacy, candidature, electioneering, political campaign |
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campana | (noun) the shape of a bell | Synonyms: bell, bell shape |
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campanile | (noun) a bell tower; usually stands alone unattached to a building | Synonyms: belfry |
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campanula | (noun) any of various plants of the genus Campanula having blue or white bell-shaped flowers | Synonyms: bellflower |
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campanular | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanulate, campanulated |
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campanulate | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulated |
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campanulated | (adjective) shaped like a bell or campana | Synonyms: campanular, campanulate |
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campeachy | (noun) spiny shrub or small tree of Central America and West Indies having bipinnate leaves and racemes of small bright yellow flowers and yielding a hard brown or brownish-red heartwood used in preparing a black dye | Synonyms: bloodwood tree, Haematoxylum campechianum, logwood, logwood tree |
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camper | (noun) a recreational vehicle equipped for camping out while traveling | Synonyms: camping bus, motor home |
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(noun) someone living temporarily in a tent or lodge for recreation | - |
campestral | (adjective) of fields or open country | - |
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campfire | (noun) a small outdoor fire for warmth or cooking (as at a camp) | - |
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campground | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite, encampment |
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camphor | (noun) a resin obtained from the camphor tree; used in making celluloid and liniment | - |
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camphoraceous | (adjective) being or having the properties of camphor | - |
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camphorate | (verb) treat with camphor | - |
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camphorated | (adjective) impregnated with camphor | - |
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camphoric | (adjective) relating to or derived from or containing camphor | - |
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camphorweed | (noun) aromatic plant of western United States | Synonyms: Trichostema lanceolatum, turpentine camphor weed, vinegarweed |
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camping | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, encampment, tenting |
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campion | (noun) any plant of the genus Silene | Synonyms: catchfly, silene |
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campmate | (noun) someone who lives in the same camp you do | - |
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campong | (noun) a native malay village | Synonyms: kampong |
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campsite | (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, encampment |
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campstool | (noun) a folding stool | - |
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campus | (noun) a field on which the buildings of a university are situated | - |
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campy | (adjective) providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities | Synonyms: camp |
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campylotropous | (adjective) (of a plant ovule) curved with the micropyle near the base almost touching its stalk | - |
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